Subject: re: Report on broken packages, gcc3 on sparc64
To: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 07/17/2003 21:03:00
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Todd Vierling wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, matthew green wrote:
>
> : Well, you could put it the other way round: since NetBSD needs the __GNUC__
> : defined by default (at least now), the gcc3 pkg should do that (on NetBSD) ;-)
> :
> : you could fix fixinc to patch <sys/cdefs.h> if you were really insane. ;-)
>
> Patch it to do what? The stuff a user of cpp might need from <sys/cdefs.h>
> needs to know what the compiler is, and not having __GNUC__ is ... well,
> "wrong".
Maybe so. I don't know the whole story. What's weird to me, is that
with <sys/cdefs.h> as it is, it appears that no compiler except gcc
would be usable on NetBSD.
Frederick